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Description	Prague, Czechoslovakia Josef Koudelka's famous image of Prague's Wenceslas Square, totally empty at noon on August 21, 1968, during the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia
Source	http://www.horvatland.com/pages/entrevues/05-koudelka-en_fr.htm
Date	August 21, 1968
Author	Josef Koudelka
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current	23:22, 1 March 2008	450×306 (37 KB)	Themightyquill (Talk \| contribs)	({{Information \|Description=Josef Koudelka's famous image of Prague's Wenceslas Square, totally empty at noon on August 21, 1968, during the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia \|Source=http://www.horvatland.com/pages/entrevues/05-kou)